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  How Modern Can Zelda Get?

  We’ve seen hints from Nintendo’s Zelda franchise producer, Eiji Aonumam that more flight may be in Link’s future. Last week, I asked him about things like cars and guns getting into a Zelda game. Consider that the earliest Zelda game was all caves and magic swords, with nothing more high-tech than a boomerang and a…

  By Stephen Totilo Published November 30, 2009
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  Talk Amongst Yourselves

  It’s the last day of the month, which means it is time for the TAY readership to go to work. In addition to commenting about games, please propose a December image — and include painting and painter’s name. Suggestions? Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ.

  By Stephen Totilo Published November 30, 2009
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  What Happens When You Watch Totoro All Day Long

  To: Totilo From: Ashcraft Had Totoro on repeat over the weekend, watched it all day Sunday — literally all day, kinda like background music, I guess. And today, Micro-Bash started doing this! What you missed last night Nokia Busted Promoting Nintendo Emulators In Advertisement Korean Booth Babes Booted For Being Too Revealing Is This Game…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 30, 2009
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  Ocarina Of Time & Halo Go Just Fine Together

  It’s Halo, as though the Great Architect – in this case, Eiji Aonuma – is speaking through it. [via Go Nintendo]

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 30, 2009
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  Nintendo: Wii Sales Up 85% Since Price Cut

  You may think that Wii sales are on the way down, down, down, but don’t tell that to Nintendo! No, according to internal numbers, since the console dropped to $199 things have never better. Nintendo of America’s executive vice president of sales and marketing, Cammie Dunaway, says that since the Wii was knocked down from…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 30, 2009
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  Where’s The PS3 Version of Last Remnant?

  The game was originally released on the Xbox 360 in November 2008 and later ported to the PC. The game wasn’t the hit Square Enix hoped, and there have been reports that the game has been canned. Square Enix’s PS3 page lists The Last Remnant PS3 version as “TBA”. However, the game is completely absent…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 30, 2009
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  Nokia Busted Promoting Nintendo Emulators In Advertisement

  Hey, Nokia: just because your own experiment with handheld gaming went pear-shaped doesn’t mean you can go advertising other people’s games on your phones. Nintendo are currently investigating a commercial for Nokia’s N900 smartphone, which reportedly showed the phone happily playing a bunch of retro emulated games for the NES, SNES Game Boy and Spectrum,…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 30, 2009
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  Yeah, Another Game’s Been “Banned” In Australia

  Free-to-play MMO Crimecraft has been refused classification in Australia, on the grounds that it uses drugs as an “incentive or reward”. It’s the reason Fallout 3 had to be edited, and why NFL Blitz has never been released in the region. Another game effectively banned, blah blah blah, yada yada yada. It’s not the first,…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 30, 2009
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  Contact Creator Has Another Space Game For The DS

  Audio Inc., the brains behind Sakura Note and the excellent Contact, have a new DS RPG in the pipeline, jam-packed with synthesisers and Engrish. Let’s take a look! It’s called Space Agency. Whether it’s the sequel to Contact (which was designed by Audio’s boss Akira Ueda) or not, it’s hard to tell with all that…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 30, 2009
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  This Lady Will Put Your Eye Out

  Platinum Games wheeled out this pointy lady to play through Wii title MadWorld at an Chun Soft and Spike event in Tokyo’s Roppongi. If you have ever wondered what a woman in a spiky outfit playing MadWorld with producer Atsushi Inaba looks like, now you know. アッキーナを始め豪華ゲストが彩った”チュンソフト×スパイク 大収穫祭09-10″ – ファミ通.com [Famitsu]

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 30, 2009
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  BBC Upset With Microsoft Over Xbox Live Payments

  The BBC and MIcrosoft aren’t exactly seeing eye-to-eye at the moment, with the British broadcaster unhappy with the way Microsoft charges users for much its online content. The dispute is centred around BBC’s iPlayer, a service that allows people in the UK to watch BBC programs from their computer, PS3 or Wii. There were also…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 30, 2009
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  Nothing Says Christmas Like A Gundam Christmas Tree

  Deck the halls with boughs of holly and plastic robot toys. On December, a Gundam Christmas 16-foot tree with over 60 Gundam models will go up in Tokyo’s Akihabara. Strung with red, white and blue lights, the tree is promoting upcoming PSP protbale title Gundam vs Gundam Next Plus. Voice actor Toru Furuya, who voices…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 30, 2009
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  Royal Navy To Issue Sailors With PSPs

  Britain’s Royal Navy have begun handing out PlayStation Portables to sailors in the fleet, not so they can work on their (Final Fantasy) Tactics, but so they can “study”. A report in The Times says they’ll be used to “read and listen to coursework and practise on-screen tests in confined quarters”. It follows a recommendation…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 30, 2009
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  Korean Booth Babes Booted For Being Too Revealing

  Indecent? Or simply decent? According to website MMO News, two booth companions were asked to leave South Korean game show G-Star for their revealing costumes. This apparently is a first for the G-Star event. The companions were working the NCSOFT Blade & Soul booth. The two companions were professional models hired by NCSOFT, the company…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 30, 2009
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  Is This Game Ripping Off Mario Galaxy?

  Duludubi Star is a Chinese PC game and looks familiar. Very, very familiar. Maybe even, too familiar. Watch gameplay here and check out the game’s screen shots.

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 30, 2009
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  Teacher Skipping School In Final Fantasy XIII Ad

  A real judge might have missed court for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, and now a fictional teacher in this television commercial is doing the same. The teacher says, “It’s sudden, but starting tomorrow I’m taking time off.” The little girl stands up and asks the teacher why he is taking time off. Then…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 30, 2009
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  Modern Warfare 2 Cheaters Banned On PC

  According to Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling, a large number of Modern Warfare 2 players on PC were banned over the weekend for using cheats in multiplayer matches. He says around 2500 Steam accounts were targeted. That’s a lot of cheaters for a game being played on controlled servers over Steam. Then again, it’s a proportionate…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 30, 2009
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  NSFW: Bikini Gladiator Underboob Cosplay Features Smaller Bikini, Princess Leia

  Remember the great Tokyo Game Show underboob cover-up? Sure you do! That bikini cosplay for PSP title Kentoushi: Gladiator Begins has returned. Something is different! The bikini top has been changed — it is now smaller and corresponds with the game demo bikini top. Why? Probably because the character design owes way too much to…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 30, 2009
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  My Favorite Thing

  To: Luke From: Owen Re: The Antipodes Beckon This weekend, Dad published his annual holiday column, a tradition going back, I don’t know, it’s gotta be more than 15 years. “My favorite things,” is its theme, and his range from guilty pleasures like burnt potato chips or sausage gravy to the simpler ones like sports,…

  By Owen Good Published November 29, 2009
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  Study: Avatars Dressed in Klan Robes Usually Belong to Unpleasant People

  A researcher down in Texas has found that, when people are assigned to play characters wearing the brooding black robes of an emo Jedi, or the coneheaded getup of a KKK grand kobold or whatever, they exhibit antisocial behaviors. The study, entitled “The Priming Effects of Avatars in Virtual Settings,” more or less says that…

  By Owen Good Published November 29, 2009